Excel Move Protection Password Protected Workbook

Excel Move Protection Password Protected Workbook

When you see that it means the file has been encrypted with a password (which is different from a password protected workbook).

Just follow these simple steps: Change the file extension from.XLSX to.ZIP Extract the file to a folder with your favorite unzipper (7-Zip is what I used) Go to the xlworksheet sub-folder that you just extracted There should be one or more files named like: sheet1.xml (sheet2.xml, etc).

Inside of one of those files is an XML tag.

Re-zip the files back up Rename from.ZIP to.XLSX Done UPDATE: This method only applies to password protected workbooks.

If the file is secured with the Encrypt with Password feature, it will not work.

UPDATE 2: It is important that you dont have Windows configured to hide file extensions (which unfortunately is the default behavior).

To enable displaying file name extensions, follow this Microsoft support article.

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Related Author adam Posted on October 5, 2011 Categories Hacking Tags Excel, Microsoft, Office, XLSX 52 thoughts on How to unprotect a password protected.XLSX file Comments navigation Older comments Tanzir says: March 20, 2014 at 4:54 pm Im getting file format is not valid.

So if you call a ZIP file Test.xlsx it might be hiding the real extension and it could be Test.xlsx.zip.

Make sure you disable the Hide extensions for known file types option.

I updated the article with a link to support.microsoft.com with instructions on showing file name extensions.

Reply REDA says: February 9, 2017 at 8:36 am worked, great thank you a lot adam Reply Swoopty says: May 9, 2014 at 10:51 am I could not get the file to open after re-zipping and changing the ext back to xlsx so I tried something different.

In the code workbookPassword94B3 changed to workbookPassword and saved.

Then went into worksheets folder and opened sheet1.xml, searched for password.

Zipped it back up and changed ext back to xlsx, opened the file and turned off protection, no password required Reply Tamer Elsayed says: November 28, 2016 at 12:46 am work with me.

NOT excel files that are protected with the Encrypt with Password feature.

Yours is encrypted.

Reply NiceGuy says: August 12, 2014 at 3:24 am PS89 save your file as xls (972007), open it, go to file tab,click on Convert then it will be saved again as xlsx and then try again described method Reply jdennehy says: February 16, 2017 at 7:20 am If its encrypted you cant open it.

Reply Pritam says: June 19, 2014 at 3:43 am It Worked Reply Ankur says: June 27, 2014 at 2:23 am URGENT hi Adam i converted balance.xlsx to balance.zip using cmd prompt than, i tried opening balance.zip using winrar i got the msg.

The archive is in unknown format or damages i tried extracting using right click got msg No archive is found please suggest Reply Adam says: July 1, 2014 at 5:18 pm Hi Ankur, were you able to get this fixed It sounds like the file may be corrupt have you confirmed that Excel doesnt give you an error when you try to open it Ive done this method with both the built-in Windows ZIP utility, and 7-Zip.

Im not sure if Ive tried Winrar, but it shouldnt make a difference.

Reply Plum3r says: September 29, 2014 at 3:18 am Easy, set up your zip-Soft propperly then it will not give yu the message Reply Ankur says: October 2, 2014 at 7:38 am dear friend.it is my imp accounting file.

You are awesome Reply arkadia says: April 24, 2015 at 7:33 am There is an easier way, just use this free online service: Reply Maria Abbas (Kuwait) says: June 4, 2015 at 12:39 am Its simpleOpen the.xlsl file and click the office button all the way down to the prepare tab and again click the Encrypt Document and password window will appearjust remove the password on it and save itOhla now you can open it freelyapplicable for both differ version of EXCEL Hope it works for you Leave me a comment if it does.

Reply Emily says: July 23, 2015 at 8:06 pm To remove password encryption before using this zip method to remove the remaining encryption, do the following: Go to: File Info Click Protect Workbook Click Encrypt with Password Delete the password stored in the password bar, and click OK Reply Adam says: July 26, 2015 at 4:50 am You still need to know the password to get there.

You must open the file before you can get to that screen, and it prompts for the password upon opening it.

Reply Homayoon says: February 9, 2016 at 11:46 pm Great Emily for this easy way for removing the pwd from an protected workbook Reply wafa says: July 28, 2015 at 1:10 am i followed these steps, 1..xlsx to.zip 2.

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